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The owners named the team after the Philadelphia Warriors, an old basketball team who played in the American Basketball League in 1925. [18] Led by early scoring sensation Joe Fulks, the team won the championship in the league's inaugural 1946–47 season by defeating the Chicago Stags, four games to one.
The Packers, Red Skins, and Waterloo Hawks left the NBA for the National Professional Basketball League, and are the only defunct teams to have ceased to exist in a league other than the NBA. [7] The original Bullets were the last defunct team to leave the NBA, having folded during the 1954–55 season, and are the only defunct team to have won ...
National Basketball Association (NBA) team mascots are as follows. Two mascots, Go the Gorilla and Rocky the Mountain Lion were ranked fourth [1] and ninth [2] respectively on AskMen.com's top 10 sports mascots. As of now, four teams do not have a mascot, namely the Los Angeles Lakers, Brooklyn Nets, New York Knicks, and Golden State Warriors.
They were the first team in NBA playoff history to start 12–0, defeating in order the Trail Blazers, the Jazz, and the Spurs. The 2017 Finals once again pitted the Warriors against the Cavaliers, becoming the first time in NBA history that two teams met in the Finals for three consecutive years, and launching their great rivalry. The Warriors ...
The NBA would become the first major North American professional sports league to allow corporate sponsorship logos on official team uniforms, and the last to have a uniform manufacturer logo appear on its team uniforms. [144] The first team to announce a jersey sponsorship was the Philadelphia 76ers, who agreed to a deal with StubHub. [145]
Golden State Warriors: HOU Houston Rockets: IND Indiana Pacers: LAC Los Angeles Clippers: LAL Los Angeles Lakers: MEM Memphis Grizzlies: MIA Miami Heat: MIL Milwaukee Bucks: MIN Minnesota Timberwolves: NOP NO [a] New Orleans Pelicans: NYK NY [a] New York Knicks: OKC Oklahoma City Thunder: ORL Orlando Magic: PHI Philadelphia 76ers: PHX Phoenix ...
Since 1990, only one championship team has had that season's leader in made three-pointers on their roster—that being Stephen Curry from the 2014-15 Golden State Warriors—so it could be argued ...
It adopted the name National Basketball Association at the start of the 1949–50 season when it absorbed the National Basketball League (NBL). [1] The NBA is an active member of USA Basketball, which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) as the national governing body for basketball in the country. [2]